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A new paper has come out discussing how the Fermi Paradox might be explained by the rigors of traveling space for interstellar colonization, causing settlements to be rare and and possibly not long-lived. We'll look at this model for spreading humanity out across the galaxy and see what insights or flaws it might have.

The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04450Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson (KSR):https://www.amazon.com/Aurora-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0316098094&tag=isaacarthur-20

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